Shock and Awetober rolls along, and the WFMU listener meet-ups are starting to come fast and furious. Locals can join Bob W. and B.R. this evening, Oct. 11, for conversation, arcade games, and an array of beers at Barcade in Jersey City! Details are here, and you can check out the list of other meet-ups here. They provide a great chance to talk with other listeners about WFMU, meet some of your favorite radio voices in person, and just generally have a decent time.
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Also on Tuesday, Dan Melchior and Das Menace come to Brian Turner's show to play Melchior's special brand of "mutant" primitivist rock. Melchior has relocated from the UK to North Carolina, and with his new project just released a new album, Catbirds and Cardinals, on Northern Spy. Listen live from 3 to 6 PM, or go to the archive anytime thereafter.
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In preparation for Singles Going Steady week (coming up soon), Do or DIY with People Like Us will be doing an all-analogue show for the first time in its existence. Vicki and People Like Us have been playing only digital files all this time -- never a record or a CD -- but on Wednesday that will all change! Tune into the broadcast on Wednesday night from 8 to 9 PM to hear Do or DIY's home collection of physical artifacts.
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On Friday, the 14th, Scott McDowell and the Long Rally welcome Jeff Golick from the music blog Destination: Out -- Golick will be sharing and discussing the records that mean a lot to him at the moment. Destination: Out consistently posts rare free jazz tracks each week and has built up a faithful following among jazz enthusiasts who crave sanity in the unruly world of mp3 blogs. In addition, "D: O Radio -- Destination Out on the Air" is the newest addition to WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio webstream family. The show will debut on Oct. 31st and will air live every last Monday of the month. Listen to Scott's show from 9 AM to noon this Friday to hear more about Destination: Out!
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Listen to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Saturday afternoon, as Terre T features a live set from Sloan! The Canadian rock band are celebrating twenty years together, with their latest album The Double Cross, out on Yep Roc, being hailed as one of the best yet. Sloan have graced the WFMU airwaves before and are coming back to delight listeners again, 10/15 between 3 and 6 PM.
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Gaylord Fields's show this week will have a set by the Olivia Tremor Control, who return to WFMU to revisit the glory of the live broadcast they did (also on Gaylord's program) in 1997. Back together after a hiatus of more than a decade, the experimental pop collective will offer up a balance of '60s-style melodicism and neopsychedelic instrumental freakouts. Don't miss: Sunday 10/16, from 5 to 7 PM!
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The abovementioned are only a few of the surprises WFMU has planned for this week -- it feels safe to say that every DJ on every show will be doing something above and beyond the norm. For example, Diane Kamikaze brings on Ivan Julian of the Voidoids, Evan "Funk" Davies gives us wall-to-wall Canadian artists, Jason Sigal hosts Asian Women on the Telephone, and Joe McGasko compiles an entire show of sexy slow jams. Take a look at WFMU's Upcoming Special Programs page to see more.
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WFMU's Shock and Awetober fundraiser is a silent one -- DJs won't be asking for your money over the air like they do during the Marathon in the spring. But we do need to raise money, so be sure to check in with your favorite shows/people. (Each playlist page features a link that will walk you through the process.) At the time of this writing, the station has raised only 20% of its modest goal. Pledge!
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